"What Madness Is This?" Volume I: The Union Forever
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I guess my main quibble here is that I really don't like edgy comedy these days. Maybe it's because I'm well into my 20s now, maybe it's because I've run into too many alt-right trolls who think that posting "physical removal" memes and mocking as weak anybody who tells them to shut up qualifies as humor, but at this point the idea of "haha look at these fascists and their gleefully smug hypocrisy" is actually kinda depressing in and of itself. I've actually been enjoying the more serious turn of the story a bit more, with the grinding brutality of this war run by evil idiots shown in stark terms.
Yah I Ike the serious turn of the story more and it would sort be a little story breaking to suddenly have it be a dark comedy
I think you need to have it be serious, but the dark comedy has to be inlaid into a serious tone. Like pocket bacon, or nude aerobics, or George Washington Carver giving children cocaine. Its in a dark and dystopian world but its so dystopian its ridiculous in its twistedness.
And apparently he was great at it. His dad had to forge a rejection letter for creative writing at college. If he doesnt take over as the main Zap Zephyr writer when he becomes president then this timeline will have failed for the first time.
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLICAN UNION, GENERALISSIMO OF NIPPON, IMMOLATOR OF THE BRAZIL, AND SUPREME CHIEF OF ZAP ZEPHYR,
PRESIDENT. JOSEPH. WILLIAM. OSWALD. JUNIOR!
So basically this is the madness version of Adolf Hilter and art school.
I’m imagining Posadist aliens just glassing the entire earth except for the illuminated republics
Ephraim Ben Raphael
Banned
There should be a version of Posadism in this timeline. It would fit perfectly with the Madnessverse.
Illuminism is already pretty crazy. Wouldn’t be hard to insert that in there
So every once in a while the universe manifests pure story potential as a gift from the Gods. I'm doing my job at Walgreens this afternoon, helping a regular customer, when he starts asking about my hearse because he thought it was hilarious that I keep an old casket in the back (true story, I made it into a toolbox lmao). He then proceeded to tell me a story of how his buddy served in Vietnam and did a bunch of drugs and acid. When he got home he started sleeping in a casket every night with a trifolded American flag on his chest, hands together over his heart.
This ABSOLUTELY will appear in this timeline now. It's clinically insane and I love it. Somebody in Pinnacle Future is gonna sleep in a coffin with a flag over his chest, and it's gonna be hilarious.
This ABSOLUTELY will appear in this timeline now. It's clinically insane and I love it. Somebody in Pinnacle Future is gonna sleep in a coffin with a flag over his chest, and it's gonna be hilarious.
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Was the casket... open? Or did this dude actually go full Dracula?
You could totally phrase it as an AFC thing. Orthodox monasticism has the concept of being dead to the material world, and alive in the spiritual-- basically, a saintly person is one who feels barely more hunger, lust or greed than a dead man, but channels that saved energy into understanding God.
You could totally phrase it as an AFC thing. Orthodox monasticism has the concept of being dead to the material world, and alive in the spiritual-- basically, a saintly person is one who feels barely more hunger, lust or greed than a dead man, but channels that saved energy into understanding God.
Nevermind make it the new head of Tobia's castle